Hammer and nail-holder.



E. RACKER.

HAMMER AND NAIL'HOLDEB. (Application med Feb. 1, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED 1- STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELI PAOKER, OF DIES MOINES, IOWA.

HAMMER AND NAIL-HOLDR.

Vsrnerrron'rrorr forming part of Leners Patent No. 650,414, dated May 29, 1900? Application filed February 1, 1900. Serial No. 3,696. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELI PACKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Hammer and Nail- Holder, of which the following is a specifica# tion.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for receiving and retainingr a nail adjacent to the poll of a hammer for the purpose of starting said nail into a board or other wooden obj ect by the use of one hand only.

My invention consists in the combination, with a hammer, of a spring clamp, jaw, or holding device arranged upon or formed integrally with one side of the poll of said hammer and so shaped as to receive and retain a nail at right angles to the handle of the hammer and projecting beyond the face thereof.

My invention consists, further, in the construction, arrangement, and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated by the accompany ing drawings, in which- A Figure 1 is a side elevation of a hammer, showing a naillmounted therein as required for practical use, a portion of the handle being broken away. Fig. 2 is a plane, partly in section, on the indicated line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the hammer at right Fig. 4 is an elevation of a hammer, showing the nail-holding device separately formed and attached thereto. Figs.

5 and 6 are detail elevations of the nail-hold# in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the numeral 10 designates a hammer of ordinary size and form of the class known as claw-hammers and provided with a handle 11. Ears, bosses, or projections 12 13 are formed on and project toward the handle from the poll 10 of the hammer, and said ears are parallel to each other and spaced apart to form a slot or groove 14.

A boss 15 is formed on and extends from the eye portion of the hammer 10, and a concave seat is formed in said boss. The ear 12 is provided with a transverse hole or bore 16 near its upper end, and the ear 13 is provided with a bore or hole 17 in alinement therewith. The initial and body portions of the bore 17 are of the 'same -diameter as the bore 16; but the terminal portion of said bore 17 is of less diameter than the remainder, thus forming Vshoulders adjacent the outer surface of the ear 13. An expansive coil spring 18 is mounted in the main portion of the bore 17 and impinges the shoulder thereof at one end. A bolt 19, having a head, is mounted in the bore 17 by longitudinal movement through the bore 16, and the threaded portion of said bolt projects beyond the outer face of the ear 13 and is provided with a nut 21, screwed thereon. The end of the spring IS opposite the shoulder impin ges the head 2O of the bolt 19 and'presses said head of the bolt into a notch or groove 14, the degree of projection of the bolt into the groove being determined by an adjustment of the nut 2l on the bolt.

In practical use a nail 22 is mounted with the head thereof in the concaved seat of the boss 15, and the body of the nail is pressed into the groove 14 and, contacting with the head 20, moves the bolt longitudinally against the force of the spring 18 into position shown in Fig. 2. The nail is retained by confinement between the spring-pressed head of the bolt and the inner surface of the ear 12. By manual forcethe hammer may be swung to penetrate the nail into a wooden object, and then by oscillated movement of the hammer said hammer may be 4withdrawn from the nail and the nail further driven by repeated blows thereon. A

In the construction of the device shown in Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 the hammer 10b is of common form, and a screw-seat is formed in one side of the poll thereof. A bracket 23 is mounted on the poll of the hammer and se'- cured thereto by a screw 24, traversing the bracket and entering the seat formed in the poll of the hammer. Thebracket 23 isformed with a base 23, having a concavedseat open# ing upwardly therefrom, and the face of said bracket is provided with ears 25 26, rising parallel with each other and spaced apart IOO ` boss-23 and its body depressed Within the above the base 23% A bore or hole 27 is formed in the ear 26, and a hole or bore 2S is formed partially through the ear 26 in alinement with the bore or hole 27 and opening into the groove 29 between said ears. 'An eX- pansive coil-spring ,30 is mounted in the bore 28, and a detent 31 is mounted in the bore and crosses the groove 29. A screw 32 is f1tted in the bore 27 and adjustably connected- With the inner end of the detent 3l to engage a nail, as clearly shown in Fig. 8, and to engagethe inner end of the detent 31` when the nail. is removed. It is the function of the setscreW 32 to retain the detent and permit free movement thereof in the bore and also to prevent torsional movement-of the detent. "A portion of the detent 3l is out away, forming a shoulder 31a, opening outwardly, but Within the groove 29.

In practical use the bracket is mounted on the poll of the hammer and a nail placed Withinits head in the concaved seat of the groove 29 and in contact with the shoulder 3 1 of the detent, to the end that the detent is moved longitudinally against the pressure of the spring 30 until the nail contacts with tained between'the shoulder of the detent and the inner surface of the ear 25 by reason of the pressure of the spring 30 in the bore 2S. After the nail is mounted in the bracket the 'hamner may be swung to penetrate and 111011115 Said Hail in a Wooden object and then be oseillated to release the nail, after which said nail may be driven by repeated blows of the hammer. f

I claim as my invention- -1A. A hammer having two mating parallel projections extending outward and vertically from the poll and provided with coinciding transverse bores', arv spring-actuated detent tted in one of said bores and means for restricting the longitudinal movement of the detent, arranged andY combined to Yoperate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated. 2. The combination of the hammer having a poll, a bracket mounted thereon and formed with a groove and a seat in alinement there- With and a spring-bolt mounted in the bracket and entering the groove therein.

ELI PACKER.

the plane face of the detent. The nail is re- THoMAs G. ORWIG. 

